I would very much request that the Commission send me a certificate of my election by mail or through one of the representatives of the fleet, to the address: Petrograd, Smolny Institute, to the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin). A comrade jurist with whom I consulted says that there are no legal obstacles to sending such a certificate in this manner.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Petrograd, 23. XI. 1917.

(6 December) 1917

in the journal

Written 23 November

First published in 1937

"Naval Collection" No. 11

Printed from the manuscript